but does it do enough? does it target the right programs. we'll introduce you to new york's billionaire milkman. he's made it his mission in life to make poor kids healthier and he's using his fortune to make all of that happen. hello, i'm richard lui. thanks for joining us on this monday for you this hour. let's start with a developing and potentially dangerous situation in iran. first, it was tunisia, then egypt, yemen, now protesters are rising up in iran today. clashes between opposition protesters and government security forces who reportedly used tear gas to disperse the crowds. just a short time ago, secretary of state hillary clinton expressed her concern. take a listen. >> they deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in egypt and that are part of their own birth right. a regime which, over the last three weeks, has constantly hailed what went on in egypt and now, when given the opportunity to afford their people the same

rights as they called for on behalf of the egyptian people, once again, illustrate their true nature. >> nbc news tehran bureau chief is monitoring developments and joins us on the phone. the pictures are what we're seeing, it reminds us of egypt but it is not egypt. who do you see in the streets that are protesting? >> reporter: well, richard, there's a large cross-section of iranian society here. people from all walks of life here. there's religious people, conservative people, middle-class people and large, large portion of students have all taken to the streets today in huge protest which was, quite frankly, unexpected here. we weren't expecting to see tens of thousands of people out on the streets which did show up. >> now, ali, what do they want here? >> reporter: well, their basic thing is reform. this happened after the 2009 disputed, violently, disputed presidential leaks here.

firstly people said their vote had been robbed from them and they wanted reform. so that's their main point of contention. they want economic reform, social reform, political reform in iran. >> although you're in tehran, you watch the region. how does this compare with what's happening in the middle east and northern africa, which we have been watching? >> reporter: in terms of a popular uprising, it's similar. people have the same basic demands. but in terms of the clash with the security force, it's very different. the security here are out in a huge number crushing any sort of dissent. in egypt we even vsaw the army with the people. that's not happening here by any measure whatsoever. there is a major crashdown, this has been going on for the last year and a half and it's going on today. security forces fired tear gas on people, they beat protestors back and it became a very ugly scene, especially as night fell here. >> we watch what happened in

egypt on friday. perhaps an input there to what's happening in tehran. thank you for the latest. we'll continue to watch what's happening there, as demonstrators are seeing an evening time. egypt, the last of the protestors are cleared tahrir square, the site of the 18 days of demonstrations. many banks and businesses have reopened and the military works to restore a sense of normalcy, it's not clear whether there's one key person in charge. stephanie gosk joins us live from cairo, and has any singular person come to the front here? >> reporter: well, richard, you have the head of the military here, the head not just of the military but he's saying also the figure outside and inside iran, that is that will be the leader per se over this transition period. now, they've said that period will last six months, prance longer, depending on how long it takes to set up parliamently and presidential elections. >> so the protests or demonstrations continue. what do they want now?

hosni mubarak has stepped down. >> reporter: well, what we're seeing are protests popping up cairo and other places in egypt. people that have grievances, they feel that they have a voice to express those grievances and are right to express them, and also the possibility that people are going to listen and response to that. so we're seeing lots of different groups, bankers and lawyers and the police, many that work for the state saying, we aren't paid enough. we are not treated well enough. they're hoping that they'll get a response to that. yesterday, on sunday, we saw a number of police, about 1,000 of them, started to protest in the early afternoon. by the evening the ministry of the interior responded to their complaints and actually doubled the amount of money that low-wage policemen have been earning. what they're seeing is a response to what their problems are. and people are going to continue to protest. the military's trying to secure this country and they're asking people not insist, but asking, that people go back to work, get

the economy running again, so that this country can stabilize. >> just as it's trying to get to some sense of normalcy. thank you. here's a number for you to wrap your brain around. try to, at least. $3.7 trillion, that's president obama's budget for next year. how's that going to affect your life? let's go to nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd. what will affect our lives at home? >> reporter: two things that maybe viewers are familiar with. one, assistance for low income americans for heating and cooling, some energy subsidies. big deal in the northeast in particular, especially with a hard-hit winter, but for very hot summers. that is being cut, it's being pulled back. it's not being gotten rid of completely but just cut back. the second is pell grants for college students who want to take summer course. no more of those. that's money that's getting

moved. those aren't cuts, they're moving that money to concentrate it for pell grants for spring and fall semesters. part of that has to do with the fact the price of education has skyrocketed, gone average the average inflation rate and the pell grant system has take ain't beating. what they thought was a couple hundred million dollars of year to add summer school turned into multibillion proposition. >> big numbers. since you're talking about education here, chuck, the president really wrapping education around this budge the for 2012, branding it that way. >> reporter: the polling is all over the place. if you focus on spending and deficit reduction, it does seem fas people give the president poor remarks on this front. spending and deficits aren't the highest priority. talk about education spending money on education is a popular thing to do. so clearly the president's trying trying trying to set up a political

debate. fine, you want a debate about spending cuts, let's have a debate about spending priorities. the white house is hoping to have a debate about spending priorities. politically, we'll see where that ends up meeting in the mid. today you can feel the political rhetoric is all over the map, this uj bet, the president's budget, nobody is receiving it well on the republican side. let's see what happens. paul ryan had a press conference. he said he didn't have a budget yet but they'll put one out later this spring. a long way to go. consider this an open bid, a start of the negotiating process. a three to six-month political and policy battle here in washington. >> as you've warned us all day about that, quite process. you mentioned the word "middle." is the president going for middle independence going down the center, if you will, in terms of cuts and increases in the budget so far? >> "the new york times" put it it's a cautious budget, right? an attempt to do what he had do

to look like he wasn't overspending and that he was focused on some medium and long-term deficit redux, but there isn't this huge focus on doing it immediately, right, which is what house republicans are trying to have that debate and fight right now and it doesn't touch entitlements. entitlements is a conversation we'll start on the side. >> entitlements and both sides not address that so far. no surprise here that republican budget leaders are ripping apart president obama's budget plan. they are accusing the president of imposing $1.6 trillion tax hike and adding another $13 trillion to the nation's debt. mitch mcconnell took to the senate floor with his criticisms. attack a listen. it's a patronizing plan that says to the american people their concerns are not his concerns. it's a plan that says fulfilling the president's vision of a future of trains and wind mills is more important than a

balanced checkbook. the budget was an opportunity for the president to lead. >> he said he punted there. congresswoman loretta san cheese, from california. is the president punting here? >> no, the president's been straightforward. he began with the state of the union addresser he told americans, i want to increase productivity of the american people and you do that through education, you do it through innovation, you do it through infrastructure, communication. and his budget reflects that. i don't believe that anybody, one single person here in washington, d.c., whether they're democrat or republican, or whatever, is exactly in favor of the president's budget 100%. but it is the beginning of a dialogue. and the president has put out what his priorities are and it's up to the congress, either the republicans will put forward their own plan, or we will begin

to negotiate what the president has put forward. >> yeah, he's saying that this is an investment to increase competitiveness of the united states. did the president go too far with the cuts, the pell grants, for instance? >> it's a very difficult thing. on one hand we're cutting classes, for example, i'm interest california, we're cutting classes available at universities, public universities, increasing tuition costs. young people are trying to get through, their b.a.s, for example, diplomas in a faster time, some are trying to get summer classes but we're not going to fund that. that's just the fact in some places you don't have the money to go around. he's made a commitment to education, the president has. but you can't fulfill everybody's wish. that's a place where he has said i will fund the normal school year but in the summer i'm not going to have money for you.

if you want to do that, maybe you'll have to work part time or full time and take one night class. it's where he's seen he can make that trade-off. fueling costs for the northeast, colleagues will be upset about that. as a southern california we. >> have great weather, so it doesn't affect us. it's not easy to cut moneys from the budget. >> true, it is warmer in southern california. come on out. >> i'd love to join you there, given the weather we've had in the northeast. entitleme entitlements, neither side can get this done without looking into those big kahunas, sacred cows, the president does not address those. >> the budget, remember, is an annual operating budget. one year only. so he's laid out his priorities for the year. the issue of entitlements which do create the largest portion two-thirds of the money spent

from washington, are in some entitlement programs. those are very difficult things to tackle. i believe the president put together a commission, they came forward with cuts in a lot of different areas, cuts in defense. >> but he didn't listen to the debt commission. >> it's not for the president to put that in a yearly document. it's for him to say to the congress, please get to the table and fix social security. please get to the table, we've got a problem with medicare. and i am one of those people who actually take that commission's report and am poring through it say, listen, this is the beginning of the real dialogue that we need. republicans don't want to do that, and a lot of fellow democrats don't want to do that here. but we need to do it. and it doesn't make you popular. i may lose my job over the fact i say we need to make some changes to social secured and medicare. we need to make some changes to retirements, et cetera. we need to make some defense cuts.

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drinks and children with cardiac diseases and diabetes could be at a greater health risk. when you think of the milkman, does an image like this come to mind? for years the miming man delivered enough milk to get the family through a full week, unless you could not afford it. milk is too expensive for less four nate families so they give kids soda, sugary fruit drinks or water meaning too many kids are going without benefits of milk. enter 1 billionaire milk man. founder of homes for the homeless and in an effort to provide milk to kids he has since founded milk from the heart which hands out quarts of milk in new york's neighborhoods. mr. stern has been kind enough to join us today. appreciate all of your work as well. >> thank you for inviting me. >> how did you get involved in did it come down to one family that you met at one point? >> no. in 198 8 6 i was at a fancy

dinner party and a friend told me about homeless people in new york, families, and i lived in the city all my life and never once saw a homeless family. so i started to investigate and found out at that time there were about 5,000 homeless families and government had them hidden in what they called congregate shelters which were gymnasiums. and i was so outraged that a rich city like this with only 5,000 homeless families hid them. so i went to see the mayor. i guess it pays to have bucks, you get access, right? >> i guess so. >> it does work. >> and it works. >> yes, it does. >> so you decided on milk. why milk? >> originally we started -- >> with housing? >> with housing. recently we decided to challenge the folk lure that children at

risk really don't like milk, they like their soda, kool-aid, sugary drinks, of which there's a lot of publicity lately. >> debate, certainly. >> absolutely. so we decided to see if we gave out milk free, would children with their mothers or grandmothers come to pick it up? >> are they? >> well, they line up around the block in nice weather in rainy weather, and in freezing, cold weather. a pilot program distributed 10,000 quarts a week. >> wow. >> in a matter of a couple of hours. >> do you have enough mill snk. >> we buy it. >> we buy it. we are expanding the program. we intend to give out 1 million quarts in the five boroughs. >> the amount of families that you found that need help, i understand that you have, what,

1500 people that are at your shelters at any one time and that 70% are children? >> yes. and of the 70% of children, 70% of the children are under 6. >> under 6 years old. nobody would ever know that. that number seems unbelievable. >> the whole concept, in a wealthy city like new york, we probably have 10,000, 12,000 homeless families, mostly young children, and in a population of almost 8 million, i would bet hardly anybody knows about the problem. >> that's true. when i was reading into this, leonard, i was surprised by the statistics. what you would you say to other billionaires, your friends, shall we say? should they join this cause, too? >> one of the reasons i've agreed to have publicity for our milk program is i think that we haven proved the need, proved how to satiate the need and i'd

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i'm mandy drewy with your cnbc market wrap. the s&p around the 1332 mark. the dow is flat and the nasdaq is lower. it is the beginning of the end of falling clothing prices, increased demand in a recovering economy raised the cost of labor and raw materials. that is forcing retailers and manufacturers to hike price tags. plenty of store owners are feeling the love today. the national federal retail federation predicts an increase in spending from last year. florists and confectioners will be the biggest earners since valentine's day is the single biggest day of the whole year. >> amanda, good news. more love in retail. egyptian president hosni mubarak has not been seen since his nationally televised address thursday raising unanswered questions about his whereabouts. he may have retreated to resort

town of sharm el sheikh. nbc's martin fletcher joins us live from sharm el sheikh. what have you heard? >> reporter: he's very much seem to be here in the compound where he has a home from home, sis summer place, spends a few months of the year here. there's a great security outside the compound, dog, armed guards back of the house. the hotel i'm staying in is right next to where he's staying. i'm about 200 yards away from him right now. >> some critics of what has happened as well as mubarak's fortune have been asking about his level of lifestyle, how luxurious his retreat might be. any indication from what you know and what you're hearing there? >> reporter: it's not that luxurious. i have to say, he's known for relatively modest lifestyle of his own, though his family lived

quite differently. the house he's staying in the villa, inside a compound, one of the bin laden family has a villa in the same compound. apparently it's bigger than mubarak's. >> quite a neighborhood. let's talk about his poor health. some reports about that. >> reporter: you know, it's really hard to pin down. reports from the local residents here telling us german doctors came two days ago to see him and he was in poor health. reports in the arab media saying he was very sick and refusing any health treatment, and he's saying he does not want to be taken out of egypt. i can't confirm any of that. these are just reports. he hasn't been seen, no official comments about his health. the on official word actually is from the new prime minister who did confirm he is at his home in sharm el sheikh. >> have there been protestors or

demonstrates are in the area, those believing mubarak is there and they wish to protest his presence? >> reporter: not a word. not a peep from the people here. >> really? >> reporter: he owns -- his family owns quite a lot of sharm el sheikh. local people call it mubarak land. >> mubarak land. >> reporter: yeah. there's not a word, not a word against him here in town. that i'm aware of. >> martin fletcher, thank you very much for the latest in sharm el sheikh, hosni mubarak, and where he is staying. hosni mubarak's worth remain as mystery, estimates from $2 billion to $70 billion. officials begun the task of trying to find the lost fortune. the former egyptian president is rumored to have hidden rips and properties in london, paris, madrid, dubai, washington and new york. $2 billion or $70 billion? that would make him the wealthiest man in the world at $70 billion. >> reporter: that's right. most figure it's closer to $2

billion. when you are a military dictator for 30 years, you are access to a lot of cash, including $1.5 billion a year in american aid. and the thinking is that he and members of his family have skimmed some of that away. >> where did he get money from did he cake take it from the pe some come from skimming military contracts, that's the theory, foreign aid. and just the bureaucracy of doing business in egypt there are fees that many say are actually bribes used to keep the economy going, keep businesses going, and fund the family's lifestyle. >> to do business, i imagine, so i've read, you had to understand links to the family. his son, gamal. >> reporter: that's right. his son gamal who was considered the heir apparent to the leadership of egypt is the conduit for a lot of this. involved in investment banking

and private equity, served on the board of a big egyptian bank, one of the biggest investment banks in egypt, and many believe that was a conduit for wealth, steering money to different things, having a stake in different projects whether real estate or business ventures in egypt and beyond. >> scott, why is it important to find this money? >> reporter: well, presumably the money doesn't necessarily belong to the mubarak family. whether it came from foreign aid, legitimate foreign aid, u.s. taxpayers, whether it came from the egyptian people and it's money that should be theirs, if it's not rightly their money, that's the reason they're going after it. >> could he be forced to return the money? could his family be put in jail, face charges? >> reporter: this is going to be very, very difficult. the difficult part is finding money and making sure it's frozen and then getting it back. it's a very long process that will attack a coordinated effort around the world. authorities in switzerland,

after the resignation friday, announced they had frozen any assets that may belong to mubarak and his family, that was protective more than anything else. we don't foe what as sets there are. >> that's not common? >> reporter: that's not necessarily common, but again, it's something that when something like this happens, there's a big effort in the u.s. on the part of the justice department to eliminate stakes, what they call state-sponsored corruptions. this could become part of that though there's no official word from the justice department but it's a very, very involved process 30 trace assets, and getting them back is another issue. >> does not look easy. great stuff right there. you know, conservatives and 2012 presidential hopeful spent the weekend gathering in washington lambasting obama. >> for two years the obama administration and the democrat congress pursued an agenda bent on fulfilling the pent-up

demands of every frustrated lib zblal liberal. >> he is weak. unassertive and does not -- >> the obama administration is anti-jobs, anti-small business, anti-manufacturing, pro-trial lawyer, pro-bureaucrat, pro-high taxes. >> mark murray, witnessed cpac firsthand. from what we heard, not a lot of love. speaker boehner admitting, though, when we take a look at the opportunity for leadership to bubble up in the gop presidential field, there was a lot that could happen. so, what names did you see there in terms of surfacing at cpac that might become some of the candidates of 2012? >> richard, it's important to point out cpac and the conference that happens every year is really jftust a small slice of the elect terror rate. it's increasing libertarian.

ron paul, texas congressman who ran for president in 2008 ended up winning the straw poll for the second straight year. donald trump remarked on thursday that it's unlikely that ron paul would ever be president, or even the gop nominee but it's clear that he does have an enthusiastic following. we the reporters in attendance saw that. the other republicans, one other name who did well, who didn't show up, was new jersey governor chris christie, who finished third in the cpac straw poll, though he didn't show up and told everyone he won't be running for president. >> what does this say, mark, based on ron paul, chris christie, romney at the top of the field in the straw poll, what does it say about the gop and what it stands for and where it might be going? >> the lack of enthusiasm for the republican field right now. as i've put it it other people, when the biggest winners at cpac were ron paul, donald trump and a fake sarah palin that got a lot of attention from reporters

and the people at cpac, went those are the people that are getting -- creating the biggest stir, the republican field, the mainstream field has a bit of a problem. of course it's very early. remember, it was back in 2003, 2004 when the democrats had a very unexciting field to take on george w. bush and that presidential contest came down one state. we have 20 months to go, a very long time. right now the enthusiasm factor seem to be lacking a little bit from the republican field. but we'll find out what that field exactly looks like in the months ahead. >> thank you for reminding us. a lot of time in front of us at the moment when we take a look at this. what are the subjects, some of the speeches, that you saw there that got a lot of interest? >> well, richard, i mean, of course a lot of it was anti-obama for the most part. this is where these folks are really trying to test drive their messages in the stump speeches they might have if they become candidates. that was one. we heard policy.

newt gingrich talking about energy policpolicy. and we even heard on friday night from indiana governor mitch daniels, who gave a pretty erudite speech talking on a lot of subjects but one of which he suggested the remark that he had made a while augugo about a tru on social issues to tackle the fiscal issues that the country needs to deal with. daniels' speech got a mixed reaction. some people thought it was great. some people it went over their heads a bit. my colleague pointed out, it was more formal setting so it wasn't a big red meat audience. those were the main issues. the biggest thing was anti-obama, and people who wanted to be able to beat him two years from now. >> what are the conversations that you overheard as you were there during cpac and on the ground? >> the conversations are that people are really wanting to take a look at who might end up

running. and of course, as i mentioned earlier, perhaps one of the more interesting conversations throughout was when people thought that sarah palin actually showed up at cpac. of course she didn't show up. there was a look-alike who did. it was interesting, hundreds of people around her thinking that it was her and then that they would find out it really wasn't sarah palin. sarah palin in fact was maybe one of the winners just not even showing up but still is able to create some buzz. >> save a couple of bucks there, too. thank you so much. you know, is it possible to lift the world's immediatiest children out of poverty and give them hope for the future through soccer? well, that's the mission of the united soccer training academy a 5-year-old organization using the sport of soccer to train players from pennsylvania to ghana and they also provide food, shelter and education by using claiharitable donations t. cad mis.

after spending 12 years with manchester united, thank you for joining us today. >> thanks for having us. >> you returned from brazil. tell us how this program works. >> essentially, we go to -- we've located a company of countries such as brazil and ghana where we go and try to use football as a way to enrich children's live business offering hope and providing not only footballing structure but food, clothinging medical care, et cetera. >> that they wouldn't have otherwise. >> tunes they wouldn't have otherwise. >> would they be able to sign on with a team? would they have a pathway to work for one of the fifa teams? >> they would have a pathway to go to professional clubs. the goal is to provide them with education and make sure once they complete football in careers as children they would able to go to universities. be honest, most children won't make the grade to become professionals but the opportunity's there. >> countries that love their soccer, you've got a lot of people interested. it was like 2,000 people that

showed up? >> in the first day. >> tell us about that, phil. 2,000 people showed. how many spots do you have? >> we expected -- we expects 300. >> seven times the amount that you expected. >> absolutely. we were totally blown away. regarding spots, we try to provide for as many as we possibly can. every time we go back out there were more kids wanting to play. they want to play football, they want to play soccer, and just be given the tubopportunity. >> you left to work on this. why did you do that? >> well, first of all, i spent -- >> man-u is one of the teams. >> i had 12 great years, really enjoyed myself. obviously it's -- i met bob a couple years back. he sold me on his vision, his dream, the project, it didn't

take me time to accept. i was sold straightaway. people back in england had doubts it could be done, what we're doing. the same in the states over here. what we come from the same page. we think it's doable. we've been in africa a number of times. >> and it's working. >> and it's working. >> bob, how many i cans have you helped and what are they doing now? talk about the success stories. >> we've worked with over 4,000 children in the last year between brazil and ghana. in terms of the success stories we've been able to get some children who are orphans placed into homes where they're taken care of on a daily basis. we have two boys next month go on trial in europe. if successful, moneys that come in from that will be able to feed thousands of more children and we'll be able to work with more children and they'll become national heros in brazil and beg ghana. >> any of the children playing

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i think the biggest problem is just going up and approaching. most people went up there, they'd fine a lot of people are more receptive to what they want and they're able to talk to them and just find out they're really cool people. >> so james, i'm going to the steps that you have listed in your steps to seduction. one of your tips, instructs men to isolate women for makeout sessions. you get straight to it, don't you, my friend? >> it's a part of it. they followed us for five, six months and picked up on a few things. people feel uncomfortable being in front of friends or co-workers or anything else like that. to make a good connection you need to have isolation. you need to talk to that person one-on-one. so, isolation is not talking about the bedroom or anything like that, but it's being able to connect with that person one-on-one rather than having the distraction of friends and such. >> some folks might find these tips, shall we say, offensive.

what sort of response have you had about this? or even sexist, for that matter. >> believe me, i had bad comments on this but we've had positive feedback. it's a touchy subject where everybody has a feeling, an opinion, one way or the other. but we've had a lot of good opinions about it. of really good opinions about it. what happens is that some of this stuff does couple. sex is a little crazy. if you look at how we deal with these guys and women, we touch women too, we're trying to develop them to be better people, bring themselves out. we're trying to get them -- a lot of our people are hidden people. they just need to learn how to express themselves, learn how to be more awesome, how to deal with situations and social areas that they are just not experienced in. we're trying to give them southeast experience. >> you have a one day session and called how to be awesome.

what are some of the exercises that you are using in this course? >> we do a lot of exercises. it all comes down how you're expressing yourself again. you have external expression of yourself which is your body language, your voice. we do like an exercise in that. how you are perceived and what are you saying when you're not saying -- you don't have to worry about what you're saying how you say it. we deal with that. what your body language is. how you're talking as a person. your willing to give up on your beliefs to buy into somebody else's dream. >> how do you evaluate your students? does it take 30 seconds to tell what somebody needs to do? >> really, it's a long time. we really try to work with them on a four week course. >> four weeks? >> yeah. we do a lot of intensive in class session and training out there too. >> you do pilates too? >> wish. >> james norton, thank you very

much for stopping by. sounds like a lot of fun should people take that course. appreciate you for giving us your own tips in terms of dealing with dating. >> thank you, richard. >> the red river inches higher. will we see record floods this year. that and more up next. this is msnbc.

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